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High-impact music adds emotion and depth to documentaries, helping stories connect with viewers. Choose from orchestral, ambient, acoustic, cinematic, and world tracks, cleared for film, TV, festivals, and streaming platforms.

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Listz - Un sospiro

Romantic and dreamy. Classical piano masterpiece by Franz Liszt (1811-1886).

Listz - La campanella

Catchy, dynamic with a bit of magical feeling. Classical piano masterpiece by Franz Liszt (1811-1886).

Handel - Passacaglia

Classical piano, baroque masterpiece by Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759).

Debussy - Arabesque n. 1

Mystical and peaceful tenderness. Classical piano masterpiece by Debussy (1862-1918).

Chopin - Nocturnes Op 15 - n. 2

Peaceful and relaxing with a bit of sadness. Classical piano masterpiece by Chopin (1810-1849).

Just The Way You Are (Orchestral Sweet)

Inspiring, melodic soft orchestral track with intense emotional impact. Melancholic but not sad, the mood is sweet with a sense of serendipity.

We Are Free Now (Melodic NewAge Adventure)

Orchestral classical NewAge, intensly emotional with inspiring hope and beautiful melody. Uplifting serendipity.

Crusades (Epic Adventure)

Orchestral slow force growing to the reach of heroic discovery adventure enterprise.

Beethoven - Fur Elise

Romantic par excellence!! Classical piano masterpiece by Beethoven (1770-1827).

Corporate Background

uplifting and inspiring corporate ambient background music is perfect as background music for inspirational and successful story, advertisement and TV commercial, brand company and news, science and invention, architecture and trade, technology and education, media project, podcast and more motivati...

To the Battlefield

Epic cinematic orchestral trailer music for soundtrack with adventure mood. Perfect choice for games, cinematic background, promos, intro, presentations and many more

Dark Hybrid Glitch Ambient (Space Music, Dark Experiment, Horror Film Scene)

A melancholy dark ambient cinematic experimental track with beautiful acid sounds, glitch, and noise. Its item will evoke feelings of horror and mystery. This item created for different space videos, presentations, websites, films, YouTube videos, tutorials, slideshows, meditation, horrors and more....

Music for Documentaries

Documentary music is crafted to support storytelling without distracting from the narrative. It often uses subtle rhythms, evolving textures, and melodies that adapt to different subjects and scenes.

Where to Use Documentary Music

Documentaries can range from intimate personal stories to large-scale explorations of history or nature. If your film highlights travel, culture, or traditions, world music provides authentic sounds that help transport viewers into specific places and communities. For productions that explore human achievement, conflict, or nature on a grand scale, epic tracks deliver intensity and scope, giving the narrative more weight and dramatic impact. By combining documentary scoring with these categories, editors can match music directly to the subject matter.

Royalty-Free Documentary Tracks at Themusicase.com

All documentary tracks at Themusicase.com are royalty-free and include a sync license. The catalog includes investigative underscores, cultural soundscapes, and cinematic themes ready for film, broadcast, and online platforms.
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